DIVING

Into History

Elpida Hadjidaki, is a Diving Archaeologist with the Greek Ministry of Culture and an Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University. She uses scientific processes to date artifacts. She is conducting two main excavations At Alonnesos, she works on the largest shipwreck of the Classical period yet found (100 feet long, 30 feet wide, carrying around 4000 wine amphoras). She also studies Phalasarna, a harbor town of the Hellenistic era. It remains largely intact. Ironically, its preservation is partly due to immense earthquakes that lifted the whole harbor onto dry land and then completely buried it.